Re: background color gray instead of black

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 03:11:23PM EDT, Britton Kerin wrote:
> I've tried both these commands:
>
> :highlight Normal ctermbg=black
> :highlight Normal ctermbg=0
>
> but the background is still ugly grey not true black.
>
> Hmm after a bit more experimentation I find this does what I want:
>
> :highlight Normal ctermbg=255
> :highlight Normal ctermbg=255
>
> I guess this has to do with the colorscheme torte that I use in .vimrc,
> it just seems a bit weird the explicitly setting the color twice to what
> one would expect to be white is required to get it to be black :)
>
What does ':verbose hi Normal' display..?

What color is the top left rectangle when you run 256colors2.pl from a
shell prompt..?

CJ

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